http://kenpom.com/rpi.php
And our SOS moves up to 7
. This is why the RPI is worthless. It needs to be banished from college basketball.
UC plays RPI #2 next. Any of those RPI experts out there know if UC was to lose to Villanova could UC still move up in the RPI?
Can't wait to see those numbers change after playing Nova. Beating the #70 team at the time at home drops us 4 spots...playing the #2 team at home will at least make the S.O.S. jump....a win could send the RPI near the top 15 (using Marquette's win at home against Pitt as a reference and how they leaped from 27 to 19).
Does UC have the best RPI of all the bubble teams? That would be great! Number one bubble team in the country. Don
Did you see how far Seton Hall dropped after its loss to Notre Dame? It is now #43. I think that loss last night cost Hall 10-12 places in the RPI.
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Playing Nova will give UC a bump in the RPI. 50% of your RPI is your opponents winning %. Villanova's winning % is higher than UC's current opponents combined winning %, therefore the number goes up after the game is played.
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You may not like it, but it is a major factor in the selection process. No team ranked 1 to 32 has ever been left out of the tourney.
Most years only 1 team ranked 33 to 40 is left out.
You are not really a bubble team until your RPI is over 40.
If UC were to lose to Villanova our RPI would probably rise to #24 or #25. If UC wins our RPI would jump into the Top 15.
CatsClaw Wrote:If UC were to lose to Villanova our RPI would probably rise to #24 or #25. If UC wins our RPI would jump into the Top 15.
If we lose everyone pays attention to rpi still, if we win everyone stops caring.
I'd still care about our RPI big time if we won. We'd be playing for seeding at that point! ;-)
Remember that when the RPI goes up or down it is not just a result of our game. It is also affected by all the otehr teams in the NCAA. We had a pretty good week as far as other games helping our RPI (things like Xavier finally winning again, Vandy beating Kentucky, etc).
We're still benefitting this year from Huggin's great scheduling, where he always avoided playing many teams in the 200+ range of the RPI. When he scheduled cupcakes, it was usually cupcakes who were going to finish high up in their conference.
Bruce Monnin Wrote:Remember that when the RPI goes up or down it is not just a result of our game. It is also affected by all the otehr teams in the NCAA. We had a pretty good week as far as other games helping our RPI (things like Xavier finally winning again, Vandy beating Kentucky, etc).
We're still benefitting this year from Huggin's great scheduling, where he always avoided playing many teams in the 200+ range of the RPI. When he scheduled cupcakes, it was usually cupcakes who were going to finish high up in their conference.
That NC A&T game is holding back our RPI at least 2-3 spots. Wasnt that game scheduled for Hicks. If we end up barely out of the tournament, I bet hed be wishing we didnt play that game.
jarr Wrote:Bruce Monnin Wrote:Remember that when the RPI goes up or down it is not just a result of our game. It is also affected by all the otehr teams in the NCAA. We had a pretty good week as far as other games helping our RPI (things like Xavier finally winning again, Vandy beating Kentucky, etc).
We're still benefitting this year from Huggin's great scheduling, where he always avoided playing many teams in the 200+ range of the RPI. When he scheduled cupcakes, it was usually cupcakes who were going to finish high up in their conference.
That NC A&T game is holding back our RPI at least 2-3 spots. Wasnt that game scheduled for Hicks. If we end up barely out of the tournament, I bet hed be wishing we didnt play that game.
About the only thing I know for sure is that the Bearcats game against NC A&T will NOT in any way affect the chances of a bid to the NCAA tourney.
Love to talk about what the Div-II game does or does not do for us, but back to something directly related to the hard data: the minutia of decimal points with lots of number thingies.
I just noticed that a whopping .0023 separates the teams bewtween #27 & #22. To put that in proper perspective, .0390 separates Duke and Villanova at 1 & 2 (for those not inclined to doing higher math...that is a big difference ;-) )
We are right there in a bit of a logjam. We dropped but by the absolute slimmest of margins. Seeing that, I bet we drop a a spot or two more throughout the week but we definitely could move up even with a loss to Nova due to our SOS going up a few spots.
& BTW, little Bro on Victory Parkway posted a win against one of the A10 cellar-dwellers in fine fasion yesterday as well. They droped from somewhere in the low 60's to #76. Bet they still think they are a bubble team. lmfao
Rathskeller_Crew Wrote:& BTW, little Bro on Victory Parkway posted a win against one of the A10 cellar-dwellers in fine fasion yesterday as well. They droped from somewhere in the low 60's to #76. Bet they still think they are a bubble team. lmfao
They arent a bubble team yet, they still need to go on "the run".